About: Tom Fulcher

Tom Fulcher – President & Founder
Mr. Fulcher is the founder of The Idea Gardener® llc, a business development and marketing consulting organization and has over 25 years of management experience with start-ups, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies.
Tom is co-director of ASU’s Innovation Advancement Program and has lectured at The Thunderbird School of Global Management. He serves on the Invest Southwest/Venture Madness Executive Committee, leads business seminars and workshops and is active in the angel community in Arizona. He also serves as a judge for Venture Madness, the ASU Edson program, the Arizona Innovation Challenge and as both a panelist and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Arizona Commerce Authority Venture Ready program.
His business development and strategy consulting organization has a successful track record of helping entrepreneurs in the areas of business planning and modeling, branding and marketing strategy, preparation for capital formation, licensing and as a mentor and board member.
Tom holds a B.S. in Management from Arizona State University, an MBA in Marketing from the University of Denver and a certificate in Global Leadership from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is a Certified Small Business Counselor and holds other certifications in International business. In addition to The Idea Gardener LLC, Tom also has ownership interests in several start-up and emerging firms in Arizona.